Marina Schwarz + 1,576 January 30, 2019 The world’s largest “virtual battery plant” is now operating in the Arabian desert Interesting. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickW + 2,714 NW January 30, 2019 46 minutes ago, Marina Schwarz said: The world’s largest “virtual battery plant” is now operating in the Arabian desert Interesting. Good that they opted for Sodium - Sulphur, neither of which face the same supply bottlenecks as Lithium. In any case energy density of batteries is not generally issue in static locations. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
markslawson + 1,057 ML February 1, 2019 The story is of interest, and I see they are using different material and spreading their locations, but like the bulk of stories about batteries leaves out basic details like costs and revenue, and even the rational for the battery - what's its main purpose? It would also have nice to be told the life span of these different types of batteries. I would query one point - the story says it can power the UAE grid for six hours if need be - say what? Its output is 100 MW - that's doesn't sound like much even for a comparatively small nation. I think someone got carried away on that one.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickW + 2,714 NW February 1, 2019 23 minutes ago, markslawson said: The story is of interest, and I see they are using different material and spreading their locations, but like the bulk of stories about batteries leaves out basic details like costs and revenue, and even the rational for the battery - what's its main purpose? It would also have nice to be told the life span of these different types of batteries. I would query one point - the story says it can power the UAE grid for six hours if need be - say what? Its output is 100 MW - that's doesn't sound like much even for a comparatively small nation. I think someone got carried away on that one.. Sounds like BS in the article to me According to this https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ae.html UAE's annual electricity consumption is 113 TWH The Battery stores 648 MWH If my maths serves me correctly at this late hour thats approx 3.6 mwh a second (time averaged over the year) so that battery, putting aside output limitations can keep the UAE going for about 3 minutes. 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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